A series of awful minigames that ask you to jump or tap at the screen while Jerry wildly steers himself around the poorly constructed courses. [Dec 2006, p.55]

It screams half-arsed puzzler - ticking the simplicity box required by the genre but failing miserably to offer any addictive depth. [Mar 2007, p.64]

Why stick just one rubbish, bad-looking board game adaptation onto a DS cart when you can do four? [Mar 2008, p.70]

File under hexagonal-puzzler duds next to "Honeycomb Beat." [Nov 2007, p.72]

This is a dodgy game, even as fishing titles go, and really not worth the effort. [Dec 2007, p.70]

Scratch your head in tragi-comic woe as you try to decipher the game's cryptic instructions! [Mar 2008, p.71]

The steaming cherry on an already stinking bum-cake, Billy the Wizard is one of the most horrible things to have happened to us in a long while. [Christmas 2007, p.65]

Imagine "Ninjabread Man" with all the cakes taken out and replaced by musical stuff. Congratulations - you've just invented Rock 'N Roll Adventures! [Christmas 2007, p.65]

It's highly addictive, some puzzles are fiendish and stylus controls trounce mouse clicks. [Nov 2008, p.75]

Almost identical to last year's version, so watch out if you were expecting something new for your 30 quid. [Nov 2008, p.58]

Strictly for the show fans. In America. [Mar 2009, p.74]

The minigames and presentation are great for very young gamers. [Oct 2008, p.76]

A few nice ideas spoiled by some blitheringly daft ones and duff graphics. "Mario and Sonic" are still the gold medalists. [Nov 2008, p.67]

Snooze-a-rama. [Mar 2009, p.75]

I crushed the cart under the wheels of my office chair and chucked the pieces in the bin. [Jan 2009, p.77]

An amusing little time-thief. [Jan 2009, p.74]

Battles are a massive disappointment. [Jan 2009, p.77]

If you like paintball, book a session of the real thing. [Christmas 2009, p.69]

Just pick up a 99p quiz book instead. [Mar 2009, p.72]

Pretty good motion controls, so why ruin them with bog standard, dull events? [May 2009, p.64]

There are some nice DS-specific ideas here, but not enough to keep you playing. [May 2009, p.79]

The ultimate exercise in futility. [Jan 2009, p.71]

Visit your local arcade instead. [Apr 2009, p.72]

Word-manglers of any sort should have some fun with this. [Apr 2009, p.77]

No fun. [Apr 2009, p.46]

It's no substitute for the real thing. [Apr 2009, p.75]

Dead on arrival. [June 2009, p.74]

This is the kind of game that makes us invent words like stinktacular and dumpulescent. [June 2010, p.71]

The whole thing just feels a bit cheap. [Oct 2009, p.69]

Unremarkable. [Sept 2009, p.72]

The stylus controls are unresponsive, the graphics are uninspiring, the story is inconsequential, the tasks are repetitive and the music's appalling. [Nov 2009, p.72]

What's fun for free isn't always worth paying for. It's why our theme park, Jump Into Piles Of Leaves World, went into administration. [Aug 2009, p.72]

A frustrating experience. [Mar 2010, p.65]

The lack of single-cart multiplayer is a bit hard on on the piggy bank. [Mar 2010, p.68]

There isn't much to separate Africa from the first SimAnimals. [Christmas 2009, p.70]

It's nice to see a developer bothering to make a good quality game for junior gamers, but the books are better. [Winter 2009, p.70]

The gameplay lands with a thud on the "it's just cheap" side of the fence. [Dec 2009, p.71]

There's very little incentive to keep going. So, er, we didn't. [Dec 2009, p.71]

Better than average film tie-in. [Christmas 2009, p.70]

It's devoid of charm or technical merit. [Feb 2010, p.69]

Achingly slow. [Winter 2009, p.70]

It's just not much fun. [Winter 2009, p.70]

This is barely one evolutionary step beyond the likes of Sonic & Sega All Stars Racing. [June 2010, p.71]

They didn't get their heads around the stylus. [Winter 2009, p.70]

Offensively lame. [May 2010, p.68]

It's a good way to kill some time - and cute little Moki. [Feb 2010, p.75]

You won't find many gamers round here who've imported this. [Apr 2010, p.71]

This feels more like a WiiWare release. [Jan 2010, p.72]

A massively disappointing puzzler. [Mar 2010, p.65]

Botched design, poor songs and bloody chipmunks. [Feb 2010, p.68]

There's a fan-pleasing storyline. [May 2010, p.68]

With Zoo Keeper still available, there's no need for this. [Mar 2010, p.68]

As a full retail release it's difficult to justify the price. [June 2010, p.70]

Even die-hard Twilight fans (Twi-hards?) are going to feel a bit short-changed by this. [Apr 2010, p.70]

A remarkably charmless game. [Apr 2010, p.71]

As a full-price game you've got to be joking. [June 2010, p.71]

Very pleasant and cute for the kiddies, but mum or dad will soon spot the technical shortcomings. [May 2010, p.68]

Uninspired. [July 2010, p.63]

Basic approach. [July 2010, p.67]

As blatant a cash-in as all those hurriedly published vampire romance novels. [Aug 2010, p.66]

Simple, thuggish pleasures. [Aug 2010, p.70]

There's a pleasant enough Toy Story 'vibe' about the whole package but a few technical problems stop it being much fun. [Aug 2010, p.72]

And it doesn't help that it was clearly made on a budget of about 17 pence. [Aug 2010, p.73]

This is quite possibly the ugliest game we've ever seen. [Aug 2010, p.73]

A five-year-old PS2 game, eh? Terrific. [Aug 2010, p.73]

We suspect even very young gamers would rather have the Jaffa Cakes for their birthday as well. [Oct 2010, p.65]

More disappointing in reality. [Oct 2010, p.65]

The DS has plenty of mediocre puzzle collections, and Puzzle Time fails to do anything better than its many competitors. [Oct 2010, p.65]

Whether you play humans or the machine, you'll find this a solid and thorough exploration of the sport. [Issue#56, p.69]

It doesn't take long for things to get repetitive, but if you don't find this a problem there's certainly plenty to do, with side quests to access and itmes to collect. [Issue#56, p.70]

Aside from the atrocious controls, graphics and music, the striking thing about Megamix Sports is its desperation to find enough things for you to do. [Issue#56, p.71]

Clumsily executed port. [Christmas 2010, p.60]

Play the real games instead. [Christmas 2010, p.70]

It's just like singing along to the DVD rather than proper karaoke. [Christmas 2010, p.71]

A decent digital board game. [Christmas 2010, p.74]

Serious sharpening required. [Christmas 2010, p.74]

Essentially unplayable games. [Feb 2011, p.67]

Shovelware has a new mascot, and it's the disturbingly semi-clothed Yogi Bear. [Feb 2011, p.68]

The awful FlatOut made us pine for ZX Spectrum paddles - its controls are that painfully imprecise. [Feb 2011, p.69]

Tedious backtracking. [Feb 2011, p.70]

If it's real detective work you're after, this scene is dead. [Feb 2011, p.70]

The barrel puzzles are punishing for all the wrong reasons. [Feb 2011, p.71]

If your biggest peeve with real fire is all that pesky warmth it produces, Fireplacing could be the non-game game for you. [Feb 2011, p.75]

Gives you a reason to use the board. But seeing as it's one of the worst peripherals ever made, that's not something to celebrate. [Jan 2011, p.64]

There's not much variety. [Jan 2011, p.68]

We'd rather undergo a CIA interrogation than play this again. [Jan 2011, p.68]

There's a reasonable amount of variety despite the short running time. [Jan 2011, p.69]

It's not offensively bad, just bland. [Jan 2011, p.69]

There's novelty value here for fans of the show but anyone else will find this as limp as, well, House's limp. [Jan 2011, p.69]

A fun timewaster, but not as exciting as its soundtrack suggests. [Mar 2011, p.77]

The control system is irritatingly basic, and you'll likely be bored of it within ten minutes. [Aug 2006, p.67]

Fun, frustrating exploration fest that you <I>will</I> want to finish no matter how many times you have to kill Lara to do so. [Dec 2006, p.40]

The bulk of the beast is a poorly programmed platform game, with a useless jump, lamely linking itself to the book/film's story with unlocked Story Pages. [Feb 2007, p.82]

Depressing from the very first row of formulaic collectable yellow orbs, Raving Rabbids is platforming by numbers. [Feb 2007, p.75]

Depressingly devoid of any of the movie series' charm. [Apr 2007, p.51]

The kids will probably love it, mind. [Apr 2011, p.74]

Turn the sound down and you may get a few hours' fun out of this one. [Apr 2011, p.75]

This isn't the sort of thing you play for the 'game' part, is it? [May 2011, p.70]